The dividends rise and the proletarians fallSelf-criticism is air and breath for the proletarian movementI feel at home in the whole world, wherever there are clouds and birds and human tearsFreedom is always the freedom of those who think differently

Tag Archives: Human Rights

TISA TROUBLES

TiSA is in fact aimed at freeing corporations providing transnational services from what they view as burdensome and needlessly differing national and local regulations. The agreement is also designed to pry open public services to commercial involvement

ATTACK ON MST SCHOOL

According to the MST, the whole operation means to frighten the activists of two camps on public land coveted by a lumber company in the state of Paraná. We see with dismay the repeated episodes of repression of peaceful protests and social organizations committed to the expansion of human rights

THE STRUGGLE FOR A UN TREATY

In this study, the authors call on governments not to give in to the pressure of corporate lobbyists, but to challenge their demands. The Treaty process presents the opportunity for governments to prove that it is in their hands to put human rights above the interests of big business.

New Challenges

Historian Horacio Tarcus: “Leftist groups they could lead a process of unity, with open discussion, without mutual exclusion, without reciprocal sectarianism. This sounds like a utopia but some steps have already been taken”